Assessment strategy and rationale

A range of assessment procedures will be used to meet the unit learning outcomes and develop graduate attributes consistent with University assessment requirements.

The assessment tasks and their weighting for this unit are designed to demonstrate achievement of each learning outcome. To pass the unit, students are required to submit and participate in all assessment tasks. No one piece of assessment will be worth more than 50 per cent of the total mark. Students must obtain a pass mark or better overall from the combination of marks from all three assessment tasks to pass the unit. The tasks are linked in a developmentally progressive sequence with the later assessment tasks given more weighting than the earlier ones since students’ knowledge and understanding of the unit should increase over time and thus they should be better able to do well on the set task. Assessment task one will be an early, low risk, relatively lightly weighted assessment task (reading-related task/s) to assess student achievement of LO1 and LO2 and is designed to be diagnostic (since this is an introductory unit), formative and summative. It will take place in the first half of the semester with feedback made available to students by, at the latest, the end of week 6, as per the university’s assessment policy. The second task requires to demonstrate their ability to synthesise scholarly arguments with their own insights to make insightful about a selection of texts and tests LO1, LO3, and LO4. The final task is summative and requires students to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the textual and theoretical knowledge they have acquired in this unit through an examination/take-home examination or summative assignment.